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" Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was. "

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" Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything. "

" I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people. "

" My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say. "

" I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote. "

" It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters. "

" We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true. "

" If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. "

" English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture. "

" I have always hated fancy dress parties. "

" I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne. "

" If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women? "

" Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men. "

" I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time. "

" It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. "

" Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl. "

" What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it. "

" We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men. "

" I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. "

" A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit. "

" It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old. "

" People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. "

" I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey. "

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" I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.' "

" I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off. "

Mary Beard

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" There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that. "

Mary Beard

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" We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. "